The Obama administration should use executive authority “to protect families from separation and exploitation” by permitting parents and long-term undocumented immigrants to remain in the U.S., according to a letter from two committees of the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops. The unpublicized letter, sent to U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, is signed by […]
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President Ronald Reagan carried a Republican-controlled U.S. Senate into office in 1981, and its members immediately set out to find examples of waste, fraud and abuse in government. Newly elected Sen. Paula Hawkins, R-Fla., was eager to begin and scheduled a lunch with colleagues to discuss food stamp fraud. She served New York steak. The […]
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Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., cheered the “game changer” agreement to cap and curb greenhouse gases announced Wednesday in Beijing by President Obama and China’s President Xi Jinping. But Republicans on Capitol Hill denounced the accord, and renewed their promises to curb the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s effort to reduce carbon emissions by […]
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Ex-state Agriculture Director Dan Newhouse is 2,182 votes ahead in the race for Washington’s open 4th Congressional District seat, following a bruising Republican-vs.-Republican battle against Tea Party favorite Clint Didier. A Sunnyside farmer, Newhouse has piled up a 60-percent-plus win in his home base of Yakima County, and is ahead in neighboring Benton County. Didier […]
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The world faces increasing “likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts” from climate change if it does not quickly cut dependence on fossil fuels, according to the new scientific report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “Human influence on the climate system is clear, and recent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are the highest […]
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